What other certifications exist?

Last year on the Qt dev days, I took the basic Qt Essentials exam. The program of exams was supposed to grow bigger later on, I understood at that moment. However, so far, I can not find anything more. Is there some information available on other exams, and details on the curriculum for those?

I am already a Certified Dev (logo thingy does not work properly yet...)
However, AFAIK, there were supposed to be multiple exams. The first one is called "Essentials". That also suggests that there are others that are less essestial (more advanced, I'd imagine). I'd like to get better qualified :-)

One of the most important aspects for us with advanced exams is to get a broad feedback from Qt users. I believe, it is even more important here than in Essentials (nevertheless, we had many folks in the review of Essentials too), since the ambition of "advanced" is totally different. We also like to avoid an impression that it is made in the way we believe is best. We like to ensure that Qt users share our views.

If you have some suggestions or ideas about topics for advanced exams, please let me know.

@Ivan. A good suggestion, but also not very new. Upcoming advanced exams have a LOT more code to analyze than Essentials. There are several pros and cons if it comes to project assignments in certification. Even if we do not use them now, we have them on our list for the future.

Exactly! And this is where the difference is! We DO NOT have such questions! Moreover, we spent dedicated time to review Essentials and remove even so called recall questions as far as it makes sense. We now are developing questions for adv exams with a specially written style guide which has several other sophisticated rules and requirements. Around 70% of question will ask you either to analyze a code segment and make a statement about it, or complete a code sample.

[quote author="Vladimir" date="1283966631"]Exactly! And this is where the difference is! We DO NOT have such questions! Moreover, we spent dedicated time to review Essentials and remove even so called recall questions as far as it makes sense. We now are developing questions for adv exams with a specially written style guide which has several other sophisticated rules and requirements. Around 70% of question will ask you either to analyze a code segment and make a statement about it, or complete a code sample.[/quote]

Well, I just took the advanced tests (in beta) last week at the Dev Days in München. Vladimir was right, a lot of the questions were about making statements on a piece of code. That was better than what I remember of the Essentials exam last year. Still, there were a few questions that required knowing something by heart that I thought was something that you'd normally just quickly look up in the docs. I can not be more specific on this public forum (you have to sign an NDA on the contents of the exam). Still, this happened less in the advanced exams than in the essentials one, and I don't think it is much of an issue if you have sufficient exprience with Qt: you'll make it anyway is my idea.

P.S. Turns out I was right before when I suggested I should start studying for this years dev days :-)